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Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s gospel reading is a rather heartbreaking story, to be honest. The rich young man is obviously a follower of the law and a religious man, because he is able to talk to Jesus about his observance. But when Jesus tells him to let go of what he has in order to gain…
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Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Have you ever been sure of the Lord’s call in your life and it just terrified you? I have. And for those of us who have been in this position, we can perhaps understand Jonah’s reaction in today’s first reading. He had been called by the Lord to preach to the people in…
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Twenty-seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings It would probably come as no surprise to you that today’s first reading and a part of the Gospel were read at the wedding I celebrated yesterday. Obviously we left out the part about divorce, but these readings are quite popular for weddings. The reason, of course, is that the story is about…
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St. Jerome
Today’s readings “But you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God.” These are the words that Jesus speaks to one of the crowd following him today. Get your priorities straight and set out doing the ministry you have been called to do. These are words that St. Jerome took to heart. He immersed his entire…
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Ss. Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, archangels
Today’s readings This is the beginning of a rather angelic week for us Catholics. Today we celebrate the feast of the archangels, and on Friday we will have the joy of honoring our guardian angels. We celebrate the way the angels protect and guide us and keep us on the path to Christ. Many people…
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Monday of the Twenty-sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings God’s salvation is radical. Zechariah, in the first reading, is speaking to the broken Israel. On account of its sins, it was taken into captivity and exiled to Babylon. The fate they suffered was well deserved. Generations had rejected the Lord’s covenant, had instead turned to the pagan gods worshipped by the people…
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Twenty-sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings When we think about prophets and prophecy, I think our minds always take us to ancient days. All the prophets we can think of lived many centuries ago: Moses, Elijah, Jeremiah, Amos and all the rest, right up to John the Baptist who was the last of the prophets of old and the…
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Saturday of the Twenty-fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Fear is a bad thing. Fear destroys discipleship. In the case of the gospel story today, fear kept the disciples from understanding. As well we know, Jesus was speaking to them about his passion and death, and they didn’t get it. They didn’t get it because that was not their idea of what…
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Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings Today’s Gospel is very interesting compared with yesterday’s. Yesterday, Herod was trying to figure out who Jesus was; today Jesus is asking who people said he was. What is most interesting is that the answers both times are the same. The people advising Herod gave the same answers as the Twelve did today:…
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Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week of Ordinary Time
Today’s readings You know, I think Herod was asking the right question. Sure, he was asking it for all the wrong reasons, but still, it is the right question. And that question is, “Who is Jesus?” What Herod was hearing about Jesus is pretty much what the disciples told Jesus when Jesus asked, “Who do…
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